On Sunday night, Mike Huckabee was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Progressive Group for Independent Business in Calgary, Canada.
While meeting with reporters, he hit on one of his frequent themes this year (video here) -- that Barack Obama has fundamentally altered our relationship with Israel.
"The Israelis are concerned like you can't imagine over national security issues, because the policies of the United States have so radically -- and I use that word deliberately -- radically changed in regards to the policies of the Middle East."
Huckabee, to the Christian Broadcasting Network in November.
"I'm especially grieved at what's happening with the policy toward Israel.
We are abandoning the only real ally and friend we have in the Middle East, and we're doing it in order to court really a thug, rogue, terrorist government like the Palestinians who are led by a person who helped clear the finances for the Munich bombing."
In August, he sat down with the Jewish Press.
Q: Had you secured the GOP presidential nomination last year and gone on to win the presidency, what policies would you have implemented relating to Israel?
A: I believe Jerusalem should be the site of the U.S. embassy. It's the capital of Israel. It's not our place as an American government to determine what the capital of another country is. We don't do that with anyone else on earth.
And it's incredible to me that we would say we're not recognizing the very capital that is the seat of Israel's government, where the prime minister governs and resides and where the parliament meets. It makes no sense.
A HuckPAC post, also in August.
President Obama’s unprecedented stance toward Israel doesn’t just contravene the past forty years of American policy, it contravenes his own statements as a presidential candidate.
That same month, he visited Israel and hit the idea that Jerusalem could be a divided city.
"I've been coming here since 1973. This is my 11th trip here, and through the years, the one thing I've seen consistently is that it's unrealistic that Jerusalem can be a divided city. It needs to be a united city.... the idea that two sovereign governments can own the same piece of real estate is pretty unrealistic by anybody's standards."
